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11%OFFLeon Wainwright - Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art (Value Art Politics LUP) - 9781781384176 - V9781781384176
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Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art (Value Art Politics LUP)

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Description for Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art (Value Art Politics LUP) Paperback. Fresh attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its political power through phenomenological attention to art and embodied experience, the senses and perception, affectivity and the emotions. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 45, 45 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; ABA; ACX; AF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception. Much before scholars in the arts and humanities took their recent `ontological turn' toward the new materialism, black British art had begun to expose cultural criticism's overreliance on the concepts of textuality, representation, identity and difference. Illuminating that original field of aesthetics and creativity, this book shows how black British artworks themselves can become the basis for an engaged and widely-reaching philosophy. Numerous extended descriptive studies of artworks ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Value: Art: Politics
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781384176
SKU
V9781781384176
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About Leon Wainwright
Leon Wainwright is Reader in Art History at The Open University, UK. His research has a transatlantic scope, bringing together the politics of historiography in art history with the philosophy of aesthetics, and new approaches to materiality and geographical space in the social sciences. He is the author of Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (Manchester University Press, 2011) ... Read more

Reviews for Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art (Value Art Politics LUP)
'Cette publication qui est un ouvrage de reference credible pour le public, les universitaires et les chercheurs, poursuitles recherches sur l'historiographie et les lieux visuels, ainsi que d'autres themes avec pour objectif premier de questionner la visibilite de l'art ; a savoir, comment creer un art qui suscite des questions pertinentes, qui devienne significatif, ce que Wainwright definit comme `un ... Read more

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